The Elizabethan Gardens and Roanoke Island Festival Park have established a joint admission ticket, The Park & Gardens Pass, that offers a 20% saving to both attractions. These tickets are available at both attractions as well as the Outer Banks Welcome Center on Roanoke Island and the Aycock Brown Welcome Center in Kitty Hawk. Park & Gardens Pass tickets are: Adult, $13.00; youth 6-17, $9.00 and those 5 years old and under are admitted free. The Elizabethan Gardens was created by the Garden Club of North Carolina as a living memorial to the English colonists who first settled on Roanoke Island. Each season brings a fresh and exciting array of flowering plants, shrubs and trees. Masses of blooming azaleas, dogwoods, rhododendrons, herbs and bulbs can be experienced in the spring. Sweet scented roses, magnolias, crape myrtle, hydrangeas and bedding plants bring stunning color to the summer garden. Annuals, impatiens and chrysanthemums are abundant in the autumn and spectacular camellias and daphne bloom in late fall and winter. Also enjoy antique statuary, the world's largest bronze likeness of HRH Queen Elizabeth I and period buildings. Roanoke Island Festival Park, located across from the Manteo waterfront, brings 16th century history to life. Step aboard the Elizabeth II, a representative 16th century sailing vessel. Visit with soldiers in the Settlement Site. The Roanoke Adventure Museum explores 400 years of Outer Banks history. Watch the 50-minute docudrama, The Legend of Two-Path. View a new artist each month in The Art Gallery and find unique gifts in the Museum Store. The NCSA Summer Performance Festival, presented by students of the North Carolina School of the Arts, runs from late June to early August. Top quality children's performances are offered in the indoor Film Theatre. Special events are scheduled throughout the year. Stroll boardwalks through natural marshes and get up close to nature and observe its hidden pristine beauty and quite surroundings. Call (252) 475-1500 for a current schedule of events or visit www.roanokeisland.com.